accountability

The City of Dayton has two pools on two sides of town. Which bathroom is on the east side and which is on the west side?

Don’t you dare ask why.

Racism in Dayton? Why, you don’t say. Really? Naw. It’s like fight club, we don’t talk about fight club. For the life of me, I’d love to hear the explanation of why the Princeton Recreation Center on the West Side doesn’t have doors on the toilet stalls in the men’s locker room, and the Lohrey Read More

The dirty little secret of the VA: failures in government contracting

While Congress continues to feast on the foibles of the VA, pointing fingers at anything that moves, one little minor problem continues to be overlooked: Federal contracting and its farcical system of awarding contracts and providing the lowest and best cost solutions to the taxpayers. The Feds are the largest purchaser of goods and services Read More

Duplication and abdication: Urban League

Yesterday, I spoke about “The league of extraordinary gentle women” who rule over Dayton non-profits by being the gatekeepers to corporate guilt/gelt. They administer the doling out of millions a year in the forms of grants and operational funding of our insane patchwork of non-profits that supposedly provide valuable community services and arts and culture. Read More